Cold-water paint and method of making same



Patented Dec, 12, 1922.

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FREDERICK BELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COLD-WATER PAINT AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

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T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Coldater Paint and Method of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification' This invention relates generally to paints and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful cold-water-paint and process of making the same, the principal object of my present invention being to provide by a relatively simple and easily practiced process an eflicient and inexpensive cold-waterpaint in cake, block, or other compact shape which may be conveniently handled in commerce.

With the above and other objects in View, my present invention resides in the production and provision in cake, block, or other compact commercial form or shape of a ready-to-use and efiicient cold-water-paint.

In practicing my invention and in the production of my new cold-water-paint, l first provide a suitable binder, preferably employing for the purpose what may be designated as glue saturated water, by dissolving glue in water in the proportions approximately, using solid measures, of eighttenths of an ounce of glue to two ounces of water. The binder is now diluted and its volume increased by approximately two to two and a half pounds of preferably cold water. The resulting binder so preferably formed is now placed in a suitable mixing receptacle and I then add, as a base or body, approximately one pound of finely pul verized clay and commercial whiting. The mass so provided is now thoroughly agitated, and during agitation, I add a small quantity of a suitable bleaching element, such as, for instance, and preferably ultramarine, should clay be the base or body, a small quantity of a suitable antiseptic, such as, for instance, and preferably lysol, as a preservative to prevent molding, and a dye or color-pigment preferably in the form of a powder and in such quantity as may be required to give the finished paint the desired tint. Agitation of the entire mass is continued until the several ingredients are thoroughly mixed and commingled, and it may here be stated that during agitation at suitable quantity of an electrolyte, such as,

Application filed May 9, 1921. Serial No. 467,941.

for instance, caustic soda or wilkenite,.may also be added for suspending and preventing precipitation of the several ingredients.

The several ingredients having been so thoroughly agitated and mixed, the mass is then run through a suitable filter-press or into suitable preferably plaster or other porous molds or the like to drain off surplus water. The mass is subsequently divided and placed in suitable molds and then pressed and formed into relatively hard individual cakes, blocks, or other compact commercial shapes convenient for handling. Such cakes and blocks, it may be added, may be of any suitable size, and when dry are preferably separately wrapped in paper, boxed, or otherwise prepared for market My new paint may be thus easily and inexpensively manufactured and furnished to the trade and consuming public not only in conveniently handled cakes or blocks, but at relatively low cost. For use or application upon a wall or other surface, the cake or block readily dissolves in cold-water 01. other suitable vehicle and provides a most efiicient paint or coloring tint.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I

1. As a new article of manufacture, a dry cold-water paint formed essentially of a base of pulverized clay and whiting, and a liquid binder, thoroughly mixed together in approximately the relative proportions specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a dry cold-water paint in cake form made up essentially of a base-of pulverized clay and whiting, a liquid binder, and a coloring pigment, all thoroughly mixed together in approximately the relative proportions specified.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a cold-waterl paint in cake form including in its [composition a base of pulverized clay and whiting, a binder, a coloring pigment, and a molding-preventative, all thoroughly mixed together in approximately the proportions specified.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a dry cold-water paint in cake form including in its composition a base of pulverized clay and whiting, a binder, a coloring pigment, and lysol, all thoroughly mixed together in approximately the proportions specified.

5. The process of making a cold-Water paint Which comprises thoroughly agitating and mixing a base or body of powdered clay and Whiting, a glue saturated Water binder, and a coloring pigment, then draining oil paint which comprises thoroughly agitating and Whiting, a glue-saturated Water hinder,

a coloring pigment, a bleaching element, an electrolyte and a molding-preventative, then draining off surpluswater, and then forming the mass into relatively hard individual cakes.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my 20 surplus Water, and then forming the mass 10 into relatively hard individual cakes.

6. The process of making a cold-Water 

